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Covering a wide range of subjects, including 19th century Ontario history, fiction, and other genres.

Title
Author
Price
Genre
500 Brickwall Solutions to Geneaology Problems
The Publishers of Family Chronicle Magazine
$30.00
research
A Brief Examination of the Practice of the Times
Ralph Sandiford
$10.00
history
A Scented Christmas
$5.00
A Closet for Ladies and Gentlewomen
Anonymous
$15.00
food history/historical recipes
A Corner of Empire: The Old Ontario Strand
T.R. Glover & D.D. Calvin
$10.00
history
A Gentlewoman in Upper Canada: (1969 edition)
Anne Langton
$15.00
history
A Quill and Quiet Stream
Clayton William Thexton
$5.00
poetry
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
$5.50
children's literature
Amid the Guns Below
$10.00
An Address Book for Naturalists
Doris Huestis Speirs (ed.)
$5.00
gift
An Immigrant Orphan's Story: Longing for Love
Frances Zaniewski
$10.00
history
An Historical Almanac of Canada
Lena Newman
$20.00
history
Approaching Ontario's Past
Ontario Historical Society
$2.00
history
At the Foot of the Rapids
$15.00
Best Seat in the House
Robert Fulford
$8.00
memoir
Bridget's Black '47
Dorothy Perkyns
$12.99
YA fiction
By the Sound of Her Whistle
John Craig
$15.00
history
Canada's Governors General 1867 to 1952
John Cowan
$30.00
history/reference guide
Canadians at Table: a Culinary History of Canada
Dorothy Duncan
$35.00
food history
The Canadian Empress: Building the Last Canadian Cruise Ship
Robert W. Preston
$24.95
marine history
Canoeing North Into the Unknown: 1874-1974
Bruce Hodgins & Gwyneth Hoyle
$30.00
marine history
Casselman's Canadian Words
Bill Casselman
$19.95
humour
Century of Conflict
$20.00
Close to the Earth
$15.00
Dear Canada: A Rebel's Daughter
Janet Lunn
$15.00
YA fiction
Dear Canada: Blood Upon Our Land
Maxine Trottier
$15.00
YA fiction
Dear Canada: A Trail of Broken Dreams
Barbara Haworth-Attard
$15.00
YA fiction
Deck the Halls
$5.00
Delicious Mirth: The Life & Times of James McCaroll
Michael Peterman
$40.00
biography
Driftwood, and other poems
P.J. Peters
$20.00
poetry
Drunk as a Boiled Owl: James Shields
James Shields
$4.00
humour/memoir
Early Clothing in Southern Ontario
Eileen Collard
$10.00
history
Early Furniture in Upper Canada
Jeanne Minhinnick
$3.00
history
English Bloods: In the Backwoods of Muskoka , 1878
Frederick de la Fosse
$24.95
history
Everyday Folk Art: Hooked Rugs and Quilts to Make
Laurie Simpson & Polly Minick
$10.00
historic crafts
Fighting for Democracy : A Canadian Activist in Spain's Civil War
Jim Higgins with Jeanette Higgins
$23.00
history/memoir
Flight
Connie Brummel Crook
$9.00
YA fiction
Foe
J.M. Coetzee
$15.00
fiction
For God and Humanity
$20.00
From Sea Unto Sea; The Road to Nationhood
W.G. Hardy
$20.00
history
Gifts of Age
Charlotte Painter
$2.00
history/memoir
Good Bones
Margaret Atwood
$11.00
fiction
Goodroom, Eh?
Elva V. Bates
$25.00
Gosport: A Pictorial History
Ian Edelman
$20.00
history
Great Forests and Mighty Men: Early Years in Canada's Vast Woodlands
David Lee
$24.95
history
Great Scots! How the Scots Created Canada
Matthew Shaw
$24.95
history
Greenbank: Country Matters in 19th Century Ontario
Hugh Graham
$24.95
history
Hearth and Home: Women and the Art of Open Hearth Cooking
Fiona Lucas
$19.95
women's history
House Calls: The True Story of a Pioneer Doctor
Ainslie Manson
$15.95
children's picture book
Industry and Humanity
William Lyon Mackenzie King
$20.00
political history
Land Where the Sky Begins; North America's Endangered Tall Grass Prairie and Aspen Parkland
Dennis & Barbara Huck
$29.95
nature
Literary Sketches
$10.00
Loyal She Remains: A Pictorial History of Ontario
United Empire Loyalists' Association of Ontario
$75.00
history
Maple Moon
Connie Brummel Crook
$9.95
children's fiction
Mary Prince and Ashton Warner:
two slave narratives transcribed by Susanna Moodie
Molly Blyth, Michael Peterman (eds.)
$19.95
history
Mirror of My Soul
$10.00
Mother Nature's Magic Seed
Laura Mallory
$6.95
children's fiction
More Dating Old Photographs
$20.00
research
Mr. J. Churchill Arlidge: Flute Virtuoso
Bob Arlidge
$30.00
biography
My Dearest Wife: The Private and Public Lives of James David Edgar and Matilda Ridout Edgar
Maud J. McLean & Robert M. Stamp
$21.95
biography
Nellie's Quest
Connie Brummel Crook
$6.99
YA fiction
Nellie's Victory
Connie Brummel Crook
$7.99
YA Fiction
Nellie's Victory (used)
Connie Brummel Crook
$5.00
YA Fiction
Night Music: An Anthology of Poems
$10.00
Nothing More Comforting: Canada's Heritage Food
Dorothy Duncan
$27.00
food history
Once Upon a Time
$14.95
Ontario History: Autumn
$15.00
Paddling Partners: Fifty Years of Northern Canoe Travel
Bruce W. Hodgins & Carol Hodgins
$15.00
memoir/marine history
Piling Blood
Al Purdy
$44.00
poetry
Pioneer Arts & Crafts
Edwin Guillet
$5.00
crafts
Poets of Confederation
Malcolm Ross
$17.00
poetry (historical)
The Power of the Press
$19.95
Remarkable Years
$45.00
Robert Service: Under the Spell of the Yukon
Enid Mallory
$32.95
biography
Rolling Home: A Cross Canada Railroad Memoir
Tom Allen
$25.00
memoir
Sam Slick in Pictures; The Humour of Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
$20.00
humour/historical
Saving Family Memories
$6.95
Seen from a Canoe
$16.00
Selected Poems of William Telford
William Telford
$10.00
poetry
Silent Casualties
$20.00
history
Standards of the Highest: from Edison to GE Canada
Stewart McLaren
$40.00
history
Superior Illusions
Richard Pope
$30.00
history
Susannah's 1837: Rebellion in the Canadas
Enid Mallory
$27.00
Tell
Frances Itani
$17.00
adult fiction
The As It Happens Files: Radio That May Contain Nuts
Mary Lou Findlay
$5.00
memoir
The Canadians
Andrew H. Malcolm
$20.00
memoir/history
The Diary of Mrs. John Graves Simcoe
Elizabeth Simcoe
$25.00
memoir/history
The Fort
Bernard Cornwell
$3.00
historical fiction
The General Store
$9.95
The Green Tiger
$30.00
The Happy Islands: Stories & Sketches of the Georgian Bay
Marlow A. Shaw and Thoreau Macdonald
$10.00
history/memoir
The Kitchen
$9,95
The Journals of Mary O'Brien
Mary O'Brien
$20.00
memoir/history
The Landscapes of Confederation - Charlottetown
Catherine Hennessey
$30.00
history
The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master and the Trial that Shocked a Country
Charlotte Gray
$34.00
history
The Path of Destiny: Canada From the British Conquest to Home Rule 1763-1850
Thomas H. Raddall
$20.00
history
The Polar Passion
Farley Mowat
$40.00
history
The Roof Walkers
Keith Henderson
$15.00
historical fiction
The Sky's the Limit
$24.95
The Sea Around Us
Rachel Carson
$20.00
nature
The Stone Angel
Margaret Laurence
$9.00
adult fiction
The Tall Soldier
Manuel Alvarez
$40.00
memoir
Tinkers
Paul Harding
$15.00
adult fiction
Twentieth Century Furniture
$5.00
history/reference
Trent Severn Waterway: Boating & Road Guide
Ontario Travel Guides
$12.95
guidebook
War of 1812: Highlighting Native Nations
Zig Misiak
$2.95
history
Winter studies and summer rambles in Canada
Anna Jameson
$9.95
memoir
Women's Costume in Early Ontario
Katharine B. Brett
$5.00
history/reference
Winston Churchill and his Inner Circle
John Colville
$9.00
history
Victorian Christmas
$9.95
Young Mr. Smith in Upper Canada
Mary Larratt Smith
$10.00
history